Archive - 7 May 2012

‘Vishwaz’ meaning confidence, Najib says, describes the close rapport between the Sikhs and the government from before Merdeka.

Kuala Lumpur Police chief Mohmad Salleh says so far three people had been questioned, after 91 photographs of individuals were published.

Deputy secretary-general (operations) of the Home Ministry, Abd Rahim Mohd Radzi has been appointed as the ministry’s secretary general. His appointment takes effect on May 19.

The minimum wage rate set for the private sector would attract local employees, especially women, to work in the hotel and restaurant service sub-sector, the Dewan Negara was told today. 

Tenaganita executive director Irene Fernandez has made a statement criticising the Malaysian government and Malaysian employers in an interview with an Indonesian English daily on the issue of migrant workers in Malaysia.

The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has submitted the names of 422 company directors to the Immigration Department for the period January-March 2012 to prevent them from leaving the country before settling the arrears on EPF contributions for their employees.

The relisting of Malakoff could whet investors' appetite for power assets that have been held by an exclusive club of tycoons and GLCs.

AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines (MAS) are currently discussing ways to create intensive collaboration areas while maintaining a win-win situation.

Al-Hijrah television channel will be made available across the country by end of this year, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Jamil Khir Baharom said.

The cancellation of the airlines’ pact shows the prime minister has failed to transform an ailing GLC, says the DAP sec-gen.

Kedah opposition leader Mahdzir Khalid has alleged that the PAS-led state government failed to properly manage the state-owned Kolej Universiti Insaniah (Kuin) causing the institution to face serious financial trouble and adversely affect its academic and administrative staff.

UPDATED 7.45PM Chun-Hua Yan says recycling radioactive waste from a rare earth plant into gypsum and fertiliser  was no longer used in China.

The Federal Court today upheld a decision of the Appeals Court which had set aside the RM28.6 million in damages awarded to businessman Tang Hak Ju for loss of profits and loss of goodwill over a land deal.  

Its Wanita chief Tan Cheng Liang said the previous state government had issued three permits for quarrying projects in the area.

UPDATED 6.45PM About 10 Bersih supporters are confronted by some 20 anti-Bersih protesters at Bukit Aman. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 5.35PM PAS spiritual leader slams National Fatwa Council for equating April 28 Bersih 3.0 rally with an unruly riot.

The Dewan Negara was told that the increase in stamp price from 30 sen to 60 sen since July 1, 2010 did not burden the people.

Gertak says the call was made as she was responsible for organising the illegal gathering which turned violent.

The PM's claim that Bersih 3.0 rally was an attempt to overthrow the government is based on circular reasoning and proves nothing, says DAP.

Deputy Human Resources Minister Maznah Mazlan says the current median wage for Sabah and Labuan was RM577 whereas in Sarawak it was RM738. 

The RM1 billion illicit funds flowed out of Malaysia as reported by GFI may possibly be over-estimated, the Parliament was told today.

'Lynas is a good idea. We don’t want to have a negative impression of it right from the beginning,' says ECER CEO Jebasingam Issace John.

‘When a student has been arrested then certainly there is a basis for the arrest to take place,’ says Khaled Nordin.

The Seremban High Court registrar suggests that the NGO files its FGV injunction in Kuantan if it wants the case to be heard this week.

The people must give PM a stronger government so they can demand for Internal Security Act revival, says ex-premier.

UPDATED 5.20PM Mahfuz Omar has found the names of 113 people under 'Palapes localities' in the supplementary electoral roll.

UPDATED 3.55PM The rally was not to topple the gov't, but for clean and fair polls that all parties can contest on an equal basis, says the PAS veep.

UPDATED 1.50PM The PM's wife Rosmah Mansor was today conferred an honorary doctorate in early childhood education from UPSI.

UPDATED 3.21PM Tan Hong Kai is charged with criminal trespassing after he was nabbed at USM on April 20 while putting up Bersih posters.

The use of such a riot control agent, police say on Facebook, is safe and complies with international standards.

PENANG ASSEMBLY The Pulau Betong and Teluk Ayer Tawar reps are asked to clarify their remarks involving separate complaints.

UPDATED 1.25PM KL mayor refuses to say if allowing Bersih 3.0 at Dataran could have prevented the clash with police.

An image of the four personnel, said to have assaulted a photographer, have been uploaded on Facebook.

UPDATED 2.43PM PAS’ Ulama wing says demonstrating against electoral fraud is obligated by Islam.

State exco Chow Kon Yeow says the quest to return the third vote to the people should not be a pointless squabble with the federal government.

UPDATED 1.25PM PENANG ASSEMBLY Lim had stated that 'if Umno regains power, Hindu temples will be demolished'.

COMMENT Leo Strauss is a kind of modern-day Machiavelli, who was brazen about the need to make use of deception.

French investigators unearth more troubling details.

The PKR deputy president calls on the media and Umno not to drag his mother into their ‘dirty and disgusting politics’.

COMMENT Malaysian Electoral Roll Analysis Project (Merap) raises two issues to illustrate that the EC has not been honest in its responses.

FREE VOXPOP 'Umno will want to know - are you going to side with us or speak the truth? If you side with the corrupt...'

FREE YOURSAY 'They came only equipped to ward off the expected tear gas, chemical water and the sweltering heat.'

Hollande was elected France's first Socialist president in almost 20 years, dealing a humiliating defeat to Sarkozy.

FREE YOURSAY 'If the fatwa committee thinks that having clean and fair elections is against the law, they have degenerated into a body that cannot tell right from wrong.'